Talk:List of Homeric characters

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Aphrodite, Laomedon, Neoptolemus
Aphrodite was NOT the daughter of Cronos. Homer says she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Other versions say she was born from the sea when the genitals of Uranus were cast into them by Cronos, but she is never the daughter of Cronos.

Laomedon, king of Troy before Priam, is certainly mentioned, for example in the discussion between Sarpedon and Tleoptolemus before they fight. However, he obviously does not appear in person. I don't really know whether this article was intended to include those just mentioned in the epic too.

Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. He does not appear in 'The Iliad', and I do not believe he is mentioned either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.128.227 (talk) 15:00, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Peleus
Peleus, father of Achilles and grandson *of* Zeus. -I'm not sure if this is correct, but it needs some sort of connection.

Yes, it is correct. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, who was a son of Zeus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.128.227 (talk) 14:52, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Gods?
I don't see any of the gods (Zeus, Hera, Ahtena, Aphrodite, etc.) on the list. Is there any particular reason why they are left off? Some of them certaintly play significant roles. --Queenrani 03:00, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I second idea of including the gods as characters. They're important plotwise and in order to do any analytical or comparative work with the text. 208.58.202.169 (talk) 08:02, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Major or all characters?
As it stands, this is far from a complete list of characters in the Iliad. Is this intended as only the major characters notable enough to warrent articles on their own? If the latter, the lead needs to be edited to make that clear. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:30, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree, the page needs to be longer. Vince Calegon 15:31, 20 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vince Calegon (talk • contribs)

Proposed merge with Aesymnus
One sentence character form The Illiad. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 22:10, 28 November 2018 (UTC)


 * , sounds reasonable, provided we do something with the asteroid instead of simply deleting it. Could there be a section of the Homeric characters article for things named after them?  It might be a bit crowded with things named after Achilles or Odysseus, but not if it's limited to minor figures, or perhaps astronomical bodies.  P Aculeius (talk) 02:00, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , hmmm good point about the astro. body. Could do "In popular culture" section in this article. Or make Aesymnus a disambiguation page. Or we could do a see also in-line or around his name. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 02:38, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , a section would be more flexible, given that there's a lot of potential for expansion, and it would stick out less while there's just one entry. But I probably wouldn't call it "popular culture" if (at least for now) it's limited to astronomical bodies, otherwise it could get cluttered with multiple boats or rural villages named after just two or three characters.  If somebody wants to go that far later, and search for potential entries, fine.  But for now, limiting it to astronomy (or perhaps natural sciences, like botany or zoölogy, which seem to borrow a lot of obscure Greek and Roman names) seems prudent.  P Aculeius (talk) 12:37, 1 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 12:11, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

This is far from complete
Where is Nausicaa? Her mother Arete? Where is Calypso? Imerologul Valah (talk) 23:24, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Phylo (Odyssey) into List of Homeric characters
Text is shorter than many of the entries on the characters page and can be expanded here as an article later if needed. Ost (talk) 01:57, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No opposition in over six months, so I have merged per WP:MERGEREASON#3 (cf. WP:NFICT) Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 09:06, 16 July 2022 (UTC)